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Quotation from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
“Prudence and circumspection are necessary even to the best of men. They are indeed, as it were, a guard to Virtue, without which she can never be safe.”
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III, Chapter vii (Project Gutenberg #6593)
The narrator steps forward to draw the lesson of Tom's early scrapes for well-disposed young readers.
Citation: "Prudence and circumspection are necessary even to the best of men. They are indeed, as it were, a guard to Virtue, without which she can never be safe." — Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III, Chapter vii (Project Gutenberg #6593). (id fielding-tom-jones-q4)
Virtues: Prudence
Portrait: Henry Fielding, Unknown engraver, Public domain.
